Adventure 2: Female to Femme

Last night after my midterm (which went surprisingly uncatastrophically, although I did get yelled at for not keeping my eyes on my own paper, which was because I was staring at the driver's license of the girl next to me and trying to determine what province she was from) I went to a screening of Female to Femme given by Queer McGill. It was an interesting experience - I'm pretty sure I was one of the only straight people in the room, and it was fun to watch my friends hit on each other in a distinctly girly way. The movie itself wasn't actually that good - it highlighted the struggle of femmes, which are lesbians who dress and look like straight girls, which is apparently a problem in the gay community because of a lack of identity and a bias against lesbian feminists who dress in a way that "submits to the patriarchy". Essentially it's a counter-countercultural problem, or a counter-subcultural problem, or a sub-subcultural problem, which is a niche that most people aren't used to thinking about. For someone like me, it seemed to dramatize a problem that was relatively small to begin with, but to be fair I've never really had to worry about this conundrum much. Either way, it was an interesting experience to be around people whose lifestyle and dynamics were so different from mine, and it was definitely less uncomfortable than the time when I went to a foodbank fundraiser with a local Christian group and they told me my acts of kindness were entirely meaningless because I didn't accept Jesus as my Lord and Saviour. Fun times.